Sentences with phrase «brain communication with»

Don't confuse poor brain communication with entitlement.
This week he's beginning to develop a coating of myelin, a substance that protects and facilitates the brains communication with the rest of the nervous system.

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«This is pretty well bang on with what brain science says is most productive,» says communications strategist Tod Maffin, who organizes his own day on Pomodoro principles.
«When you tell your audience a story, the brain lights up like a freaking pinball machine,» says communication expert Leslie Ehm, who uses the principles of neuroscience in her leadership and presentation training with executives.
One of the difficulties We face when we try to relate with brain injured children is the problem of communication.
All thoughts, memory recall, complex evaluation of things and situations to varying degrees of «good» or «bad» - ness, along with decision processes and communication of these things seem to naturally fall into what is the natural, chemical and eletro - magetic aspects of our brain.
You may not be familiar with its name, but it's an essential nutrient that's needed for communication between cells, and supporting healthy brain function.
on a lack of communication with the goals... Maybe, as I told you, we used our hearts more than our brains.
His approach combines specific communication techniques with healthy, nutritional choices that create the brain and body chemistry for lasting health, happiness and romance.
Many kids with speech delays have a problem with communication in the areas of the brain responsible for speech production due to problems such as childhood apraxia of speech (CAS).
Reading with toddlers promotes communication skills, introduces grammar and phonics and helps brain development.
Born out of a series of parents» workshops that combined Siegel's cutting - edge research on how communication impacts brain development with Hartzell's decades of experience as a child - development specialist and parent educator, this book guides parents through creating the necessary foundations for loving and secure relationships with their children.
While the theoretical principles guiding the use of the NBO and the accompanying training program, include many of the conceptual themes that informed our work with the NBAS, they are influenced by theoretical and clinical principles from the fields of infant mental health, child development, brain development, behavioral pediatrics, systems theory, communication studies, nursing, early intervention and cultural studies, among its influences.
The changes are associated with less - organized communication between the brain's hemispheres and are comparable to the effects found in previous animal studies.
A key pillar of this vision is to leverage on Information Communication technology (ICT), to take advantage of the vast brain power Ghanaians have been endowed with to make a difference in the lives of the ordinary Ghanaian.
The pairing of neuroscience and computer technology is leading to once unimaginable treatments for those with severe paralysis or brain injuries that impact speech, opening paths to restore mobility and lost communication, according to a congressional presentation on neurotechnology and the military.
Their brains differed in the activity of over a hundred genes that provide cells with energy, influence chemical communications in the brain and strengthen the connection between nerve cells.
A novel optical brain - machine interface allows bidirectional communication with the brain.
According to a leading theory, proteins called amyloid beta and tau build up in the brain and choke nerve cell communication, setting the disease in motion years before people suspect anything is wrong with their recall.
While the effects of the technique are not well - understood, TMS may be able to restore normal connectivity by stimulating neurons to make more connections with each other, thereby enhancing communication between parts of the brain.
It serves as a neural switchyard with millions of communication cables that operate like telephone trunk lines connecting different regions of the brain.
«If we can provide the brain with speedy access to unlimited memory, unlimited calculation ability, and instant wireless communication ability, we will produce a human with unsurpassable intelligence.
Brain cells not normally associated with communication send out a signal when they detect blood glucose levels are running low, and this triggers the stomach contractions.
This interferes with communication in the brain and induces frenzied behaviors that favor the transmission of the virus.
This illustration shows how the rabies virus inhibits nicotinic receptors in the brain, which interferes with communication and induces frenzied behavior.
Unlike with hearing spoken languages, listeners who understand this rare form of communication rely on both sides of their brains, a new study suggests.
When patients are fitted with a robotic prosthetic limb, they gain control over their prosthesis with the help of a communication pathway provided by a brain - computer interface, or BCI, implanted in the brain.
He plans to continue using optogenetics to pin down circuits of brain cells responsible for disease and to combine that knowledge with the colorful circuit images to home in on which wires need to go where to establish normal communication.
Injury to the brain stimulates the production of new neurons, but these new cells are sometimes hyperexcitable, disrupting neural circuits and causing recurring seizures, researchers with UT Southwestern's Texas Institute for Brain Injury and Repair reported in Nature Communicatbrain stimulates the production of new neurons, but these new cells are sometimes hyperexcitable, disrupting neural circuits and causing recurring seizures, researchers with UT Southwestern's Texas Institute for Brain Injury and Repair reported in Nature CommunicatBrain Injury and Repair reported in Nature Communications.
During memory suppression, he says, activity tapers off in the brain's visual cortex (which regulates visual representation of a memory), hippocampus (responsible for memory formation and retrieval) and amygdala (a region in continuous communication with the hippocampus that formulates emotional responses to memories).
The results, published in Nature Communications, showed that frigatebirds could soar and glide with one or both sides of their brains asleep.
Now, experiments with rats and mice have shown that insulin increases dopamine levels by 20 % to 55 % in the striatal region, a brain area associated with pleasure and decision - making, according to a study published on 27 October in Nature Communications.
Instead, they found that resonance could be the key to long - distance communication in networks with relatively few and weak connections, as it is the case in the brain.
«There may be so much internal communication that the brain becomes preoccupied with itself, less able to process information coming in from the outside world,» he says, noting that studies have found that people with depression have heightened connectivity among brain networks involved in paying attention, monitoring internal and external cues, remembering the past, and controlling emotions.
Boyden said there is considerable interest in brain regions that are important for learning or addiction — learning gone wrong — with particular attention to small groups of neurons deep in the brain that manufacture dopamine, a chemical transmitter involved in regulating communication between neurons.
Participants were screened for risk - taking behaviors, such as drug and alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, and physical violence and underwent functional MRI (fMRI) scans to examine communication between brain regions associated with the emotional - regulation network.
Raichle, a pioneer in the use of brain imaging, and his colleagues have observed that in brains at «rest» — when you are not thinking of anything in particular or even when you are asleep — dispersed areas are still buzzing with communication.
Each participant, after minimal training, mastered the technique sufficiently to outperform the results of any previous test of brain - computer interfaces, or BCIs, for enhancing communication by people with similarly impaired movement.
Their results, reported in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate that in patients with chronic pain associated with amputation or nerve injury, there are «crossed wires» in the part of the brain associated with sensation and movement, and that by mending that disruption, the pain can be treated.
«Since neurotrophins and their receptors control the communication between the brain and peripheral organs, they could be new therapeutic targets with implications in both metabolic and neurologic diseases.»
«We found subtle brain differences in men who at a very young age had severe problems with communication and social interaction.
The ecRNAs, they say, are fundamental regulators of DNA methylation patterns in the adult brain through interaction with DNA methyltransferase enzymes, and the ecRNAs may offer a promising future therapeutic avenue to treat neuropsychiatric disease states associated with changes in DNA methylation, as they report in the July 7 issue of Nature Communications.
Brain imaging revealed a striking finding — significant changes in the communication between specific brain regions correlated with elevated maternal IL - 6 and CRP leBrain imaging revealed a striking finding — significant changes in the communication between specific brain regions correlated with elevated maternal IL - 6 and CRP lebrain regions correlated with elevated maternal IL - 6 and CRP levels.
The inability of the brain to adjust the size of eye movement may not only be a marker for cerebellum dysfunction, but it may also help explain the communication and social interaction deficits that many individuals with ASD experience.
In the clinical domain, it can enhance brain - computer interfaces in order to establish communication with locked - in syndrome patients.
Using an optical fiber implanted in that region, the researchers were able to stimulate the primary motor cortex near where the stroke had occurred, and then monitor biochemical changes and blood flow there as well as in other brain areas with which this region was in communication.
While the team peppers a subject with questions, audiotapes, pictures, and other sensory prods, an fMRI machine tracks brain activity to look for evidence of awareness and the possibility of establishing communication.
In our study, we examined whether the role of specific brain regions for communication within and among brain modules varies with individual differences in intelligence, i.e., whether a specific brain region supports the information exchange within their own «family» more than information exchange with other «families», and how this relates to individual differences in intelligence.»
The finding offers promising insight in how an external stimulus — an auditory, visual, or other sensory cue — could speed up the brain's communication with the motor system.
In the study, postdoctoral fellows Dr. Oded Klavir (now an investigator at the University of Haifa) and Dr. Matthias Prigge, both from Yizhar's lab in the Neurobiology Department, together with departmental colleague Prof. Rony Paz and graduate student Ayelet Sarel, examined the communication between two brain regions: the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.
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